Commando,

I hope the discussion above doesn't give wrong impression to you. As an econ/math major, I am sure you have a bright future, but you will have to absolutely excel in real analysis. It is the basic building block for any economic analysis. Sure you can survive in your life by running some regression, but to be a big shot economist, you need to understand real analysis well, and it is nontrivial.

As for money, as someone said above, there are different ways of making money. I personally feel that it is not how much money you make, it is how you spend your earning that distinguishes you from others. I hope that one day I will be able to help others in Nepal. We come from a poor country, and it is not good for us to show off our wealth or spend it lavishly. The best person to seek inspiration from are therefore Mahabir Pun, Dr Sanduk Ruit, Dr Bhagawan Koirala, Madan Krishna, Haribansha,  Ganesh Man Singh et cetera. They truly want(ed) our people's life to be better. Dr Upendra Mahato is also a very good person who has constantly given back to our society, and I also admire him.

When it comes to personal progress, it is not where you are, but how far you have travelled to reach where you are that is important (kuni kasko quote ho kunni). There are several Nepali near where I live. Some of them have truly inspiring story: a son of farmer goes to an Ivy League, a man who is the first person to go to college in his whole village is an engineer and so on. I am sure it sounds corny when I write here, but it is not.

I was lucky all my life, for sure. I was exposed to real analysis earlier because of my family background. I am sure it is a hard subject, but there is no short cut. Long ago, the king asked Archimedes to teach him Geometry. And he wanted to learn everything in two days. That's when Archimedes said, "O king, you can win the state  in two days, perhaps, but you can't learn geometry in two days." I don't mean to belittle other fields again, but econ is very hard since it requires both math and stat profusively, math is even harder a subject, and patience and perseverance are the only instruments that can help you.

Best wishes.